King of the Quincy Template

(Yhwach, Madara Uchiha, or Imu: if you had the chance, whose subordinate would you most want to be?)

"Boss Rocks! You guys broke in?"

"Hehe, those guys outside had some strange abilities, but there's nobody in this world who can stand in our way!"

"Oh! Is that Shiki? And Newgate too! So this is the world's strongest pirate crew!"

"Cut the crap! Where's that thing?"

"Come in..."

Bang!

The wall of a house collapsed with a crash, and Rocks and his crew charged inside. Their gazes crossed, then quickly settled on the same spot.

The house was a mess, as though it had just been looted. Quite a few large chests lay overturned, their interiors plainly empty.

Everyone's eyes fell on one person. More precisely, it was a child with his back to them.

The child stood on the floor. Hearing the commotion, he turned his head slightly. His bright eyes gleamed a deep blue, and his expression was calm as he looked at the intruders without emotion.

"A kid?" Newgate frowned.

"Huh? Where's the Devil Fruit I came for? How come it's gone?" Shiki shouted.

"Could this guy have eaten it?" Charlotte Linlin looked the child up and down.

"Should we take care of him?" Kaido rumbled.

Rocks said nothing, merely recalling when he had received the news.

This was Pirate Island, his territory.

Not long ago, he had received word that several pirate crews had come to blows in a very inconspicuous corner on the southeastern side of the island, apparently over a Devil Fruit.

He hadn't cared at first. This was a pirate paradise, after all. Pirate crews arrived every day, and every day others were wiped out or swallowed up.

But the Devil Fruit was said to be able to alter people's minds and grant power to people over a wide area.

That caught his interest, and he brought his men here.

He didn't intend to eat that kind of fruit. He had his own goal, but once he got his hands on it, he wouldn't mind giving it to anyone in the crew who wanted it.

Failing that, he could always sell it. What on these seas was worth more than a Devil Fruit?

When he led his crew to the scene, he found something strange, just as expected.

It wasn't a free-for-all between multiple pirate crews, but a battle between two clearly divided sides. One group was pirates, and so was the other.

The other group used a very unusual power. It wasn't Haki or swordsmanship, but archery.

Bows and arrows, things hardly anyone used.

Wasn't a sword good enough for a fight? Or had Haki stopped being useful? If all else failed, they could use guns. What the hell were bows and arrows?

Even though the arrows those people fired had power comparable to cannonballs, Rocks dealt with them easily.

He didn't even need to lift a finger. His subordinates took care of them.

Then, led by the man who had brought them the news, they entered this place, only to find a child...

"What the hell happened here? A fight between pirate crews was no reason to notify us!" Ochoku grabbed the man who had informed them.

"I... I don't know either..." The man nearly wet himself in fright and stammered, "The Hyena Pirates suddenly went berserk and attacked everyone else..."

Ochoku couldn't be bothered to listen to the rest. He casually flung the man away, and the man struck the wall, his eyes rolling back as he lost consciousness.

"Was it a wasted trip?" Kyo said coolly.

"What a pain! Don't go summoning us over something like this!" Gloriosa shouted. The long snake coiled around her shoulders flicked its tongue and hissed.

"Anyway, can I blow him up?" Ganzui reached over and rubbed his body vigorously, rolling the grime into a small mud pellet.

"Boring. I'm going back to drink with Shakky." A cigar clenched between his teeth, Maron prepared to turn and leave.

"Wait!" Rocks suddenly spoke.

The place fell abruptly silent. Maron, who had been about to leave, Ganzui, who had already reached out his hand, and everyone else stopped what they were doing.

Rocks stared at the child. The child continued to look quietly back at him, showing no fear or any other emotion, no matter how fierce and menacing the group was.

Rocks had a wife, though nobody in the pirate crew knew it. After his son was born, he had worried that his actions would bring trouble upon his wife and child, so he had sent them back to his hometown.

He wondered what sort of person his son would become in the future. At that thought, even Rocks, a great figure of the age, couldn't help showing a trace of a different expression.

"Kid, you've got an interesting look in your eyes. Tell me your name!" Rocks planted his sword in the ground and asked with a laugh.

Everyone's expressions changed. Did that child even look ten years old? Yet Rocks thought him worth making such a gesture.

"Kaya," the other party said softly.

Kaya was a transmigrator. He had imagined countless times how he might transmigrate, but he had never expected to go to sleep, wake up, and find himself in another world.

The process had been utterly uneventful, so ordinary that he suspected he was dreaming, but the power was real.

He had originally stayed up late watching people argue online. With Imu, the final boss of One Piece, making an official appearance, fans of Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece had all taken an interest.

Whose final boss was stronger?

Kaya thought it was Yhwach, the boss from Bleach. Although Yhwach had ultimately been hacked to death with a watermelon knife, The Almighty was an overbearing power.

He had been nodding off as he browsed the comments, and in the end, for no particular reason, he fell asleep with his face on the keyboard.

When he woke up... he had transmigrated!

Not only had he transmigrated, but his body had reverted to its childhood state, and he realized he had gained an ability.

The King of the Quincy, Yhwach's template!

He had admired Yhwach and gained Yhwach's abilities? What if he had admired a Super Saiyan instead?

There was nothing to be done. He had already transmigrated.

Simply put, Yhwach's ability was to share and reclaim pieces of his soul.

When he came into contact with someone, he could give them a part of his soul, filling gaps in their own soul and gradually healing the recipient's existing psychological or physical defects.

A person with lung disease would have their lungs healed; a lonely person's heart would be filled; a coward would overflow with courage; a person missing a leg would have the lost limb restored.

As the recipient gradually recovered in body and mind, the knowledge they learned, the experience they gained through hard work, their abilities, and the talents they displayed would all be recorded in the soul fragment given to them.

When that person died, all of it would return to Yhwach's body along with the soul fragment he had previously shared.

Yhwach's true ability, The Almighty, which could see the future, was something Kaya could not yet use.

But he still possessed Yhwach's passive skills, the basic skills of a Quincy, and the ability to share his own power.

"Auswählen," Kaya said to himself.

He took a step, then walked forward one step at a time. His stride was steady and his movements natural, yet his footsteps seemed to land on everyone else's hearts.

As he did, his body grew rapidly, changing from a child not yet ten into a young man who looked sixteen or seventeen.

He clenched his fist. He could feel the power he had shared being reclaimed, filling his body.

Its source was... the several pirate crews he had encountered after transmigrating. He had shared his power with them, and the pirates' swelling power had sparked this battle.

Some had died in the fighting, while the survivors had also had their lives taken by him just now, in an instant.

Auswählen was the ability to reclaim souls. He could actively take back the power he had shared, principal and interest included, like a loan shark.

Silence filled the house. Everyone's eyes widened, unable to believe what they were seeing: a child had grown up in the blink of an eye!

Rocks suddenly burst out laughing and extended a hand toward Kaya, who stood before him.

"Join us, you strange fellow!"